SoilBioME the amazing team I'm a part of now has socials! We are on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/soil... www.instagram.com/soilbiome/, and Instagram and our BlueSky TBA. Follow us for updates from Serita Frey, @stuartsoil.bsky.social, Jessica Ernakovich, and Alix Contosta's groups.

One way I'm trying to stay sane in all this madness is small, daily dopamine boosts. In the last 3 weeks it's been making friends with folks at the maker space in the campus building nextdoor and printing small tools for the lab from thingyverse that are normally obscenely expensive.

🚨🚨🚨 New pre-print alert: "Stable states in an unstable landscape: microbial resistance at the front line of climate change" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Probably the most complex paper I have ever worked on. It took 4 (!) co-first authors to accomplish and literal years to decipher the story.

New Paper Alert: "Permafrost pore structure and its influence on microbial diversity" - Great interdisciplinary and technically challenging paper led by the talented @nate-blais.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

My neighborhood and childhood home. At minute 1:20 in this video. Complete obliteration. youtu.be/_AerpEUm0Wo?...

I posted this elsewhere, but not yet here, so for completeness' sake: My childhood home has burned down in the Eaton fire. As have my elementary school and many other places of my childhood. My parents are safe but got out with just two bags of necessities. Feeling lots of things right now.

Happy science moment: I often feel jaded about my future role in academia. But today I looked at a list of ECR's in a field I'm growing into, and was filled excitement and joy at the prospect of getting to work more closely with such awesome and friendly people. Thanks folks, you make it worth it.

Please share: Are you a data creator/user in #metagenomics or other #omics? We’re working on standards for fair data reuse and would like your feedback. We welcome contributions by scientists from all career stages. 5-min anonymous survey here: tinyurl.com/y5kwytpd

How do you spend your Sunday night laundry time? This week, I made a @Toolik-themed palette for R, which @paxrodana modified to make colorblind friendly. See it featured soon in @FMontanoLopez , @paxrodana, and @science_chump papers!

Exciting start to this week's #ACSMTG in St. Louis! Luckily I was up already and working on my talk. (Everyone is fine!) I got to meet some fellow attendees staying in the same building. #networking??

Applications for @emerge-bii.bsky.social's 2024 Summer Program are open! Great chance to learn key tools and foundational science for interdisciplinary ecosystem science. Open to all career levels. drive.google.com/file/d/1UsYA...

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...